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Held a Fade for about two minutes yesterday... Finally figured out my Biggest problem...I opened up ny arms and hands. I was watching Martins video and I noticed like Norm his arms were wider apart than I normally have them... Yesterday the wider the longer I held the Fade. When I brought my hands in close. It wobbled till I went down ( real quick). It felt good watching the Solus just float... Just might have gotten it finally....

I finally got an AWESOME FADE! I've probably done 6 ever, this one was PERFECT. 5ft off the ground, we just stared at each other for what seemed like an hour(i was only out for 30 minutes so it was probably 30+sec) I found it relatively easy to raise and lower until the shifty winds came.

Thanks to everyone for all the tips!

Going to GLKF in grand haven, mi this weekend. I will see how the lake winds are and will have plenty of people to help video.

This challenge has been a bit more of a "Challenge" than I expected. I have not been able to do this one at my home field as of yet, which is in Puget Sound. (on the water but not on the coast) I went to the coast today for the kite festival at Ocean Shores, WA. figured I would give this challenge a go and as luck would have it I think I actually pulled it off today. Problem is that I did not expect to even get close as I have been struggling to get the 10 seconds just above the deck and therefore did not have a camera rolling but in todays nearly perfect coastal winds of 7mph I was able to descend to the low altitude fade, hold it for what seemed to be 10 seconds and rise back out of it.

I'm starting to think that we might need steady costal winds for this challenge but I intend to give it go again at my home field very soon, (with a camera rolling) but I may need another good day at the beach to get this one!

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